N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

” In the workplace, this “can stymie diversity, recruiting, promotion, and retention efforts.” To begin, you’ll need to understand what hiring prejudices are and how they operate. ” On the other hand, words like “collaborative” and “cooperative,” tend to draw more women than men.

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Process Diversity Sample Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

So it's not surprising that we received a striking diversity of entries from every kind of organization and from every corner of the world. Greg Koch tells the story of how plant managers around the world have absorbed their connection to the communities in which they do business, and work hard to earn the "social license" to operate.

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Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Instead, it operates more like GE. And it sets strategy like one, according to a Harvard Business School case study by professor Julie Wulf. Competition trumps cooperation, and distributed decision-making by individual business units trumps universal strategy. Alibaba’s businesses are not completely diverse, of course.

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IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 12